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4 CLIMATE CHANGE ALBERTAS BIODIVERSITY The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute ABMI is an arms-length not-for-profit scientific organization. The business of the ABMI is to monitor and report on the status current condition and trends of Albertas species habitat and human footprint. The goal of the ABMI is to provide relevant scientific information on the state of Albertas biodiversity to support natural resource and land-use decision making in the province. In the course of monitoring terrestrial and wetland ecosystems across the province over the past twelve years the ABMI has assembled an extensive biodiversity and human footprint database developed reliable measurement protocols and found innovative ways to summarize complex ecological information. TodemonstratethevalueanduseoftheABMI datasettoaddresscurrentlandandresource management issues the ABMI recently began undertaking research and development collaborations with partner organizations and researchers. The Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation BMCCA project presented in this report is one such collaborative effort. Through applications of ABMI capacity dataandknowledgetospecificmanagement challenges the ABMI has added value to the ABMIs core business of biodiversity monitoring. Notwithstanding the Institute is not a management agency and does not make management recommendations. In all instances the ABMI continues to generate value-neutral independent and publicly accessible data and products. And all ABMI activities are guided by a core set of principles we are independent objective credible accessible transparent and relevant. For more on the ABMI visit www.abmi.ca.